The Impossible: Possible? Continuing.

[Manoflooks]

Scientists these days are disocovering that many things only dreamed of, and thought impossible, are possible and achieving some of them.

Teleporation: Scientist can teleport atoms and photons at the world record of 100 miles. They are attempting to teleport into space, and expect to teleport to the moon by 2020. plus, they are expecting to teleport water molecules and DNA in a few decades, soom even entire cells. But, when doing this, you dissolve.

Invisibility: Scientists are working on a sort of device that would bend visible light around it, much like a boulder would a stream. However, such a device would be immobile and cost millions, so don't expect harry potter's cloak anytime soon. and you cant see out,...
Time Travel: Time travel is theoretically possible. Einstein said: Time is like a river. However, time can have whirlpools. The river of time may fork into two rivers. This means we may be able to wrap time into a pretzel, and go back in time and change the past. But the time paradox has been solved, after millenia of debating. If you change the past, you created a fork in the river. The new future, would not be the same one you came from. If you saved Caesar from being assassinated, it would be something else. We would be in a different future, and could return to one where he was killed. This is the modern representation of the quantum theory.

Artificial Intelligence: Within 15-20 years, Moore`s law will collapse, meaning Silicon valley could become a rustbelt.This is because silicon cannot compute on the level of size and the small number of atoms woud be required for more power.Also, if Moore`s law continued for another 50 years, which it cant, it would be computing at the speed of thought, about 50 trillion bytes a second. Quantum computers could become the norm, and recently a quantum computer, computing on seven atoms, proved that 3x5=15. I know, easy, but that is on seven atoms. When we can compute on millions of atoms, they could, for example, break any code in the world.




Yes, for those ones I just basically summed up the videos. But i will add more to them later, and put up way more technologies.

[Belgian General]

Could someone explain me how they managed to teleport particles? At the moment my brains seem to be exploding and even the wikipedia article seems to be blowing my mind when I try to understand. So if anyone can explain this to me in plain English, I'd be really grateful.

Thanks.

[Manoflooks]

Could someone explain me how they managed to teleport particles? At the moment my brains seem to be exploding and even the wikipedia article seems to be blowing my mind when I try to understand. So if anyone can explain this to me in plain English, I'd be really grateful.

Thanks.

Basically, in really simple terms, they copy all the data on the aforementioned object and send it along, where the data reorganizes itself. It is a hell of lot more complicated than that, but that is the jist of the jist of it.


Maybe starting an entire project on impossible physics and the history of their development was a bad idea...oh well. Some heavy reading for me.

[Godfrey I of Leuven]

Goddamn, I hate being born in the 20st century.

[Morkonan]

I like Kaku as a general "popularizer" of Science and Physics. But, too much of what he says is always taken out of context and he doesn't often bother with trying to dissuade that appropriately, IMO.

I'm afraid that much of what he has said above in the first video is simply not true or so speculative and presented in a way as to be so easily misunderstood as to be practically considered simple fiction. Quantum Teleportation/Communication is much more complicated than thinking about something as being actually "teleported" from one location to another.

In the second video, much of the discussion is more appropriate but there are many schools of thought revolving around such topics. One, in particular, he touched on requires adherence to string theory and that has yet to bear useful fruit or be predictive. It's not that it is "wrong." It just has not yet been proven "true."

In the third video, much of what is presented is highly speculative. There is a host of technological development necessary to bring these things to realization. I agree that "Moore's Law" will eventually become invalid in its present form simply because we will be moving outside of the conditions it was originally formulated around. There will be a new set of circumstances that are, in definition, similar to Moores Law that are more applicable. But, all in all, his popularization in the context of technological achievements is "fine" for the purposes of discussion in that video.

All the topics are great bits of discussion food though. As I said, I like Kaku as a popularizer. I just don't like how it appears he takes little caution in regards to people potentially misunderstanding what he is saying.

[Manoflooks]

I know, but the videos ae really too short for him to do all that. I own a couple of his books, and he does very well there in making people understand what he is saying, in great detail, but relatively understandable.

[Morkonan]

I know, but the videos ae really too short for him to do all that. I own a couple of his books, and he does very well there in making people understand what he is saying, in great detail, but relatively understandable.

I would agree that his books do much more in presenting the subject matter appropriately. It has been awhile since I read the couple that I have though.

Like I said, I do like him as a popularizer. He is a very good speaker on camera and very enthusiastic. That's generally a "good" thing and helps promote science and young people's interest in it. Some specifics can get sort of dicey though and some presumptions that result can be inaccurate. When that happens, it's something that usually rests in the fault of the presenter, IMO. Sometimes, it also falls into the lap of the interviewer though.

Still, good vids and fun to watch.